I was born in Germany, studied in Switzerland and currently live in Montreal, Canada.

As a freelance Project Manager and Media Analyst I provide consultancy and management services for clients in Europe and Canada.

A good way to contact me is via email pogadl.nicolai@gmail.com or via Twitter (@nicolai_pogadl).

Until April 2020 I worked at the Canadian International Council in Toronto and helped to engage Canadians in the national conversation on international issues - the CIC’s mission since 1928.

From 2015 to 2018 I was as a project manager at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies and the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab at Concordia University in Montreal.

Past work includes conducting a transatlantic project on the impact of machine learning on global affairs, organizing a Global Diplomacy Lab in Montreal and several conferences and training programs. I also conducted summer-research at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Berkman Center, participated in several conflict and atrocity prevention hackathons, and advised two teams at a Stanford University Hacking for Diplomacy course.

Throughout university I was active as an event organizer, IT project leader and alumni representative for the St. Gallen Symposium, a yearly conference which brings together graduate students with more than 300 senior politicians, academics, and business executives.

Before university, I worked for several social organisations, for example a hospice in the United Kingdom and a kindergarten for children with disabilities in Germany.